[gracez]

I've recently added anxiety to my symptoms in the past few weeks. Have been dealing with major depression this year. Now starting to get really anxious as well. Was prescribed Atavan, and have taken 1/2 a pill the past few nights. I think it's helped me sleep. I'd just be interested to hear how it's worked for others, even though I know we're all different. I also started on Prozac this week. Thank you!

[Cocosurviving]

I took Ativan, it was a low dose and it worked for anxiety.
The only down size is after you take it awhile it stops working.
The pdoc has to increase the dose.

[sugahorse1]

I sometimes take it. It has a very bad effect on my memory, but works like a bomb on anxiety

[sewerrats]

Originally Posted by gracez

I've recently added anxiety to my symptoms in the past few weeks. Have been dealing with major depression this year. Now starting to get really anxious as well. Was prescribed Atavan, and have taken 1/2 a pill the past few nights. I think it's helped me sleep. I'd just be interested to hear how it's worked for others, even though I know we're all different. I also started on Prozac this week. Thank you!

ativan is cool in short term add on to a new AD or a 1off now an then . I have taken it for 35 years, 10 years every day and it still works on me but i can never come off it, tried that once never again.

[cool09]

The benzodiazepines all work on anxiety but have different half-lifes. I think Xanax is the shortest acting (4 hrs) and klonopin the longest acting (days). Think Ativan is in the middle. If you take benzos for a long time you can't stop them suddenly. Have to be weaned off them.

The only down size is after you take it awhile it stops working.

Your body builds a tolerance to lots of (or all) meds and other substances. That's why Michael Jackson was taking 40 Xanax a day and having no effect.

Ativan worked the best for my anxiety for years at differeing doses (had to increase over time), but then I built up a tolerance so I can't take it anymore.
Which sucks, because I am on klonopin in the PM at a high dose now and I had to start there (lower dose never worked), and it doesn't help my anxiety at all. But it does take away my nightmares, and I can sleep...so I just take what I can get from it and have to "deal" with being anxious.

[max23]

Personally I have tried many benzos. Out of diazepam(Valium),Ativan and Klonopin, Klonopin suited me the best. Ativan was ok,helped a bit with sleep. But I guess all are different. We gotta choose our own cocktail. :-D

[Fuzzybear]

Not Ativan but other benzos...

[Tamster]

valium was always my benzo of choice but after OD on xanax my pdoc and primary care wont let me have it anymore. now i have to settle for buspar, the lame drug for anxiety.

I take Ativan every once in a while and it seems to help reduce my anxiety.

[roads]

I use Ativan occasionally, never more than 2 or 3 nights in a row--usually for a single night. No problems over the past three years I've used it.